LANSING – On Thursday, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) announced the six communities receiving more than $23.9 million in total grant funding through the Michigan Talent Partnership (MTP) Program. The City of Houghton. the only UP community on the list, joins Ann Arbor, ...

HANCOCK — Copper Shores Community Health Foundation announced that Jessica Mills is the new Meals on Wheels program director. According to a Copper Shores press release, Mills has the unique distinction of being the only person to have met every current Meals on Wheels participant, and will ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan US Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been notified that the Trump administration is investigating her after she organized and appeared in a video with other Democrats urging military service members to resist “illegal orders.” Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, first ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton County has been named a defendant in a civil rights law suit filed by Dean Goding, a former Houghton County Jail inmate. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court, in Marquette on Dec. 19, 2025. According to court documents, Goding alleges that on Jan. 5, 2021, while ...

HARBOR SPRIGS — In a press release, Michigan State Police at the St. Ignace Post said the post is proud to recognize Sergeant Dennis Wagner for helping save a life while off duty at Nub’s Nob Ski Resort in Emmet County. According to the release, while cross-country skiing on Jan. 3, Wagner ...

WAKEFIELD — One person is dead as the result of an early Tuesday morning fire in Wakefield. According to the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department, first responders were dispatched to a residence on Kronberg Road in Wakefield shortly before 5:30 a.m. (CST) Tuesday. Police said that initial ...